Newfolden is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 345 people and just one neighborhood, Newfolden is the 474th largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Newfolden, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.00% of Newfolden’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Newfolden is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newfolden who work in sales jobs (12.40%), office and administrative support (10.00%), and teaching (8.80%).
Overall, Newfolden’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, Newfolden does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Newfolden citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.64% of adults in Newfolden have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Newfolden in 2022 was $29,203, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,812 for a family of four. However, Newfolden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newfolden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newfolden residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Newfolden include Norwegian, German, Swedish, Polish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Newfolden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Scandinavian languages and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.3% of America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 15.9% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Newfolden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.3% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Newfolden, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (48.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report Swedish roots (15.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.